Guild Wars 2

Staff doesnt have the benefit of Laceration, which i think is what which helps to prop up sword still. Though have http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/ been updated? Unsure if its the old numbers still.

Hey Obal, now that the changes are live. How is the rev weapons faring now?

I asume Sword is still on top despite the nerfs. Hammer having taken a significant hit due to the double cd on CoR. And that staff still is at rock bottom.

Think you are confused about something. Theres no herald armor, but Mistward, the armor revs have in character creation. Its been farmable and completeable since hot was released.

Standing on the tree west of the entrance pool to mossman seems to be the new thing now. Players can damage him with little damage in return, and the challenge is completely gone once again.

Love the QoL changes added as already mentioned.

Class Balance, the rev perspective.
I dont feel the class have been destroyed, but precision strike really needs to be improved. The projectiles are horribly unreliable and really ruins our compensation for loosing AA damage.
And as already stated, unrelenting assault is badly plagued by terrain bugs, just like vengeful hammers or coalesence of ruin.

-PLEASE- improve the underpowered revenant legends! I love vengeful hammers on jalis, but hammers disappearing on terrain seriously kills its use. And the taunt, road and rite is a joke. They badly need to be improved and actually be made useful.

I was quite interested in seeing how the mossman would go, now that theres no more poledancing. Being a herald myself, I realized I had the tools to make him a lot more doable, since cc still seems to be a quite arcane concept to most puggies. Cycling Chaotic Release and Jade Winds blows his breakbar to chunks in mere moments, and he becomes a lot less ornerous to deal with. First attempt at 77 mossman was an 1% wipe because the others got careless thanks to my CCing keeping him down, but second attempt was a lot better.

Sure Jade winds tanks my dps for a few moments, but far better than being messilly gibbed. I used to not like Jade Winds, but I am starting to see what a good breakbar tool it is.

Ive started to play Fractals the last month, enjoyed it at first but rapidly started to burn out on it. -INCREDIBLY- static, and people will always take the path of least resistance, hence mainly doing 56-67-77 for the best reward box. So many in my guild laments the disappearance of the first incarnation of Fractals with its random setup. And while Ive never played the original fractals, I can only agree that it would have been far more preferable to have random maps.

Also, it was an absurd pain to get 51-75 done for the achievement. Ive resolved to ignore 76-100, its simply not worth the effort. Instabilities are too punishing and annoying, ontop of overinflated mob health and damage. Cliffside I am looking at -YOU!-

I am going to play Fractals for 6 days more to finish getting the fractal skin for greatsword and longbow, starting a dragonhunter. Then I dont think ill bother with them, getting too boring and repetitive.

Anet, bring back the older fractals system, or least introduce a random element in the daily maps.

The central tyria mastery system is not working, too hard to gain tyria mastery points. Sitting at a full bar i cant use on anything.

Might be worth noting for anyone contemplating the order backpack collections. None of their ascended versions can currently be infused, compared to most other ascended backpacks.

If you want to have an infuseable backpack, do -NOT- waste time and gold with these collections!

Which is kinda ironic, as you get a free Gift of Ascension from completing all 3 ascended order backpacks. Which you cannot use on them.

Condi mallyx doesnt scale terribly well in pve, look in Obal’s thread. And I think youd be better off with nightmare+trapper runes. so you can heighten condi duration for all of them, instead of just burning alone. Infact power builds have made better use of mallyx, than condi builds, due to the buff from demonform.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/revenant/Guide-DPS-Revenant-for-PVE/first

I am often playing 51+ fractals and starting to get irritated by frequently ending up as a pong ball because of the mistlock instabilities. So ive been considering a more stability oriented build for my zerker, but I worry that you loose too much damage for dropping Invocation for Retribution for stability on dodge, as well taking Enhanced Bulwark over Elder’s Force?

Pretty much that, with only Shiro out of the base legends being in a good state, the Revenant have plenty of room for development. Which I hope the end of january patch will help with, hopefully the devs posts a preview soon.

I would love to play more with Mallyx in pve, but it just doesnt stack up to Shiro.

Ive been thinking. Unlike the baseline professions, the Revenant never had years of living without an elite spec. The designers then going overboard with blinging up Herald and dragonstance with the top abilities and traits there.

Thusly resulting in the feeling of the Herald simply being too good to sit without, as the core revenant lines simply isnt good enough to stand on their own without herald.

If they ever introduce more elite specs, and they keep the max 1 elite spec limitation, I wonder how they can entice people to take it over what Herald offers due to Herald being such a force multiplier. Also hard to imagine that premades will allow revs to run anything but herald due to how facet of nature makes so many classes so much stronger.

Hrm, interesting. I asume its switching to mallyx for the elite transform? It says 10% increased stats, how does that translate to 20% increased damage?

Strongly tempted to stop using Dragon stance as well. I dont like the aura, as well finding it terribly boring to be a boonbot. Not very engaging gameplay.

Ive been wondering if theres any of the classes that primarilly deals damage at range?

I am currently playing a revenant, I find it quite boring to be a boonbot. And melee feels so disadvantaged in large groups. The name spam makes it all but impossible to see ground effects up close, since you cant turn off names in squads. And solo wise, Maguuma in particular have so much melee hate, like the mordrem spamming lava lines for one.

Rev hammer feels quite inefficient compared to melee in pve, and ive been eyeing dragonhunter guardians. But is there other options?

Dragons stand is fine. You just need to be aware of how the meta event works. It cycles at set times, so you have to be present at the hours when groups will form for it. Outside of that window, its not doable to do DS, due to the time needed to complete a map.

Use one of the timer websites to keep track of the events, like.
http://dulfy.net/2015/11/09/gw2-hot-maps-timer-famme/

Mistward is already too easy to get. The only difficult piece was the headband piece from the TD meta event, and thats been nerfed into the ground. It doesnt need to be easier.

I see. Sounds like its better done in a guild,or just sticking with an exotic amulet.

Look at Dulfy, theres guides to mastery points in all hot zones. You are probably missing the strongbox mastery points, theres a lot of them.

Theres no mastery points from events.

I didnt get terribly many mastery points from adventures, as I find many of them too hard for me. But I managed to squeeze out 2 mastery points from finishing the act 1 and 3 achievements. And a video helped me to get silver on sanctum scramble, so I finally coule finish training all hot mastery lines, sans the raid one. Never been in there.

I think central tyria mastery points is far harder to get. Most of them are gated by excessively unrealistic requirements. But ive had enough to finish pact commander mastery and putting 1 in legendary and fractals respectively.

You simply dont get enough tyria mastery points. Heard some rumors that you could get more tyria points from playing different races through the story, but a dev debunked it, saying it was an one time deal.

Is the Mordrem Loop achievement the only way to aquire one outside raids?

Ive been hearing awful, awful words of what a horribly timesink the Migraine achievement is.

Plus the fact she havent scarred the mists like the others, renders her pretty unlikely.

Does Superior Rune of Leadership have any use for Boonbot Herald? Or do you give up too much dps for not having scholar/strenght?

Can only hope Mallyx will be buffed in the end of January update. He badly needs to be useable.

Thats what transmog is for.

Finally managed to get Silver Sanctum Scramble. Watching a video was key. Now I can finally finish Glints Bastion, after I realized some of the shortcut tricks. Never going back to it!

Coincindetally it gave me my last mastery point! Only got the 2 maguuma raid masteries left, but those I dont care about.

Some good suggestions for changes, most of them are far too hard. Way too many mastery points bound up in unreachable golds and silvers.

Salvage pit is probably the only one needing to be made harder. Got gold in very first attempt ever without even trying.

Vizier Khilbron would probably be a better bet for a condi themed ranged legend, using scepter. Arguably Mallyx and Abbadon would hit too similar notes, both being torment focused.

Khilbron was responsible for so much woe, destroying a huge charr army, then sinking Orr. And finally his misadventures as the undead lich.

Necros pretty much have nabbed the whole Dhuum/Reaper trope, using their greatsword that turns into a scythe in shroud. So I dont think they want to copycat that ontop Revs.

I can only agree about Herald feeling like a lazy spec. You spend most of your time autoattacking because you cant really use any skills due to upkeep punishment. Mobs rarely live long enough make you roll into shiro before they are dead. Revs felt so much more active when they mainly relied on shiro during leveling.

But i think the limited skillsets of legends is the problem, since you are locked to predefined sets. And you only can have 2 legends at once. Though I agree that Glint is overfocused on being a boonbot, and doing it too well, hence feeling forced to take it.

My unlikely wish is that they would redesign Glint away from the boring boonbot spec. Make facet of elements make you channel dragonfire around you as a pbaoe effect and causing chill and burning. But costing more upkeep pips to keep it distinct from Jalis’ hammers. That would make glint really appealing for Mallyx!

Im fairly meh about the shield. Crystal hibernation roots you in place, and the heal is not that strong. Axe gives you a strong shadowstep, giving you a gapcloser that isnt locked to shiro stance.

simple, start with Destruction. You dont want Salvation.

Sword OH is terribly underwhelming. Axe with its shadowstep performs so much better. Little use for the sword pull in pve.

Many of the adventures are simply far too hard and twitch oriented. Gold is simply unrealistic on many of them, and Silver is a problem on some as well.

Ive given up on finishing Glints Bastion as I simply cannot do Sanctum Scramble any better than Bronze.

Comming back to the Revenant after a while, Ive been wondering about one thing. How do you make use of Glint in open world pve? Dragon stance seems more geared towards large bosses and very tough mobs. Since most things dies too fast to even bother with the boss rotation of running out of energy.

Seems to me if you have the Shared Empowerment trait and use Facet of Strenght, you stack might twice as fast?

Badly struggling to get enough points to fill out Tyrian masteries. Ive completed Pact Commander, have one point in fractal and legendary. Ive not done any fractals yet, I know theres achievements tied to it. But I am seeing no other easy source of mastery points. So almost at the point of giving up on getting more tyrian mastery lines filled, simply not enough mastery points to do it.

Camping rare champions in silverwastes or living story season 2 achievements is not my idea of fun. Ive better things to do with my time.

The personal story for each of the races REALLY should give more mastery points, thusly encouraging you to play through them all!

The one time I killed the Gerent, I couldnt open the chest at first. Took a lot of clicking before it registered and all the rewards popped.

Windows 7, 64 bit version client. Started since wintersday patch.

Cant log out without options resetting. Not even shutting down the game with the X button works, still gets reset.

How useful is a tanking build in open world Maguuma, or is dps still king there?

I think Glint is simply too strong and hampering build choices. for being too much of a must pick. Which means your versatility goes in the toilet, because you are welded to Glint for one of your two legend choices.
Id dearly love to see Jalis become more of a viable choice outside of his traitline alone.

Long overdue, it was scaled wildly out of whack with the other meta events in HOT.

the ancient mariners breathing apparatus yet?

Wondering if its worth keeping doing the dolyak run in DR, or just playing normally and hope for gifts to spawn.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ancient_Mariner's_Oilcloth_Bag

Revenants doesnt need more melee weapons, and Mesmers already claimed ranged greatsword.

A ranged condi weapon is -BADLY- needed. I think the easiest thing would be to add 600 range to the mace. If after all projects a damage field, let it hit along the full part of it.

Guess the janitor pulled the wrong power plug and noones around to fix it.

Denmark here, on the Underworld server.

Very mind numbingly boring to farm airship parts from crates, makes me scream with rage.

Same problem, unable to find any items on the TP.

Hello! Ive been eyeing this Mallyx build mentioned earlier in the tread:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?vlEQRApX5un3geNSuQvJRboHlsP0kS4I6SJ4EtrkFUlR9iPGJNgCWwO92jH-ThyCABAcCBOZ/hIOIAqqE84nEAKaMMw8nRK/yTfwNq/EA4AY36W3AQKgFVWB-e

And finding it to look rather intriguing, as I find Shiro to be a bore to play and IO having a hideous sound bothering my ears. – But one thing have left me wondering. With crit not doing much for conditions at all, why use Maniacal Persistence over Diabolic Inferno? Surely youd want even more sources of burning, especially when using balthazar runes? Doubly so with Carrion armor with no ferocity, nor precision.

About 4 mastery points short to unlock everything in maguuma and simply struggling to get the last. I am not terribly good at many of the adventures, havent managed to get more than bronze on scrap riffles, haymaker, drone race, fungus among us, sanctum scramble and several more. I absolutely detest the transfom adventures with jumping puzzles or kill streaks.

Using 6x strenght myself. Tried Scholar, but couldnt stay high enough on life.